The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE grave and monument of Oliver Gold.
smith, in London, are in condition of sad neg
lect.
NINE. RIsToRI Is visiting Paris with her daugt
ter Blanca, bat will not again appear the
stage in that city, though strongly invited to dc
so.
FRANCIS MURPHY, when recently asked his
opinion about legislation against the liquor
traffic, said: IF legislation would save people
Moses would have been the Christ"
Our Quaker poet, Whittier. is said to have
lately finished rather long poem of historical
interest. which will be given to the public wit5s
a new edition of his works revised by himself
THERE was an old woman Of Gloucester,
Whose husband invariably boucess her.
And she told him she had
A'good mind to skip, and he loucest her.
-Tid-Bits.
MORE than one thousand congratulatory let
ters were sent to Mr. Gladstone on the seventy.
seventh anniversary of his birth. and the mails
| wero overburdened with gifts Of every descrip-
| ton from admirers in England, Ireland and
| Scotland
| FRANK R. STOCKTON, whose delightfully."-
unique stories have given him fame, is a tall,
slender man with look of judicial solemnity.
| His WIFE, on the contrary, who is slightly gray
| and comfortably rounded. looks woman who
| thoroughly enjoys fun and who finds plenty oft
| in life
| Mr.. HART, the publisher of Gen. Logau'a
book, "The Great Conspiracy" says that Mrs. 8
Logan's share Of the profits in the book will run
somewhere fren $50 900 to $50. 600. 1t is ex-
| pected that death of Gen. Logan will re-
awaken public /. serest in this work. which was
| peculiarly his own.
| MRS. MILLER, of Washington, is the apostle
of a new dispensation in the way of womanl
| dress. Her is waists instead Of corsets
| layers of UNI thing fitted smoothly to the
| body, and thu LAYERS to match the gown. sortof
adaptation Of Lady Habberton's divided skirt
i with slight differences.
GENERAL BouLANeER recently got into
perfectly awful state of mind at the discovery
that steel pens manufactured in per6dious AL
bion were being used by the students in the
military schools of France. He decreed at once
| that only pens Of French make should be used,
| under eeverest penalties.
MAN whose name would have been good
on check for 50, 100000 not long ago. spent
two hours in the back Office of Wallstreet
broker one day last week waiting to get the
chance to borrow $40 from one who used to be
his clerk. Speculation had brought him poverty
and made the clerk a millionaire, all within q
year or two
THE man who framed the original legal-tender
act is still living. His namo is E. G. Spaulding
of Buffalo. He is nearly eighty years of age.
At the breaking out of the he was leading
member of the lower House Of Congress. His
famous BILL known as the legal-tender act was
slightly altered before its introduction by SEQ.
, Rotary Chase and Mr.. Lincoln The original
! bill is now in the possession of it's author. Mr.
Spaulding is q bank president, and is worth $10,
| 600. 900.
A WRITER in the San Francisco Chronicle tells
} OF glass road-be in the Yellowstone Park. In
certain part of the park volcanic glass, or OBJ
/ sidian, abounds, and to make carriageway
fires were built along the proposed route, and
then when cold water was dashed upon the heat
, ell surface, hus cooling it suddenly, the glass
; broke into fragments, which were easily
, moved, until thus a road was formed. The cor
respondent writes that the glass oozes from tho
, rocks like gum from a tree 1t is almost black.
quite Opaque, and the edges of it. when clipped
off at proper angle, are as sharp razors OF
it the Indians fashioned arrow heads, weapons
. and tools.
SARDoU, when he gets play into his mind,
, moves out to mis- country residence and neither
sees nor speaks to anybody until he is through
with it. Attached to his chateau there is .
library, which opens on one side into the hall,
and on the other into the garden. II he grows
tired of writing he stroils out into the garden.
and nobody in the house knows whether he is at
work or not The only person allowed to enter
the library is waiting maid, who brings Sardou
his meals and places his letters on the table, all
without saying word He writes almost con-
tinnously from 7 at night, and his penrnanship
n looks as though it were executed with the point
4 of a needle
Q WELL at Yakutsk, in Siberia, has been q
standing puzzle to scientists for many years.
1t was begun in 1928, but given up at thirty feet
d because it was still in frozen earth Then the
. Russian Academy of Sciences continued for
some months the work Of deepening the we'll,
but stopped when it had reached to the extent Of
h som three hundred and eighty-tw feet, when
= the ground still frozen as hard as rock. In
10 hel 49, ka.xoS k..-- A.
IS excavation carefully taken at various depths.
= and from the data thus obtained the ground was
. estimated to be frozen to a depth of six hun
;, | dred and twelve feet. As external cold could
II not freeze the earth to such a depth, even Ia
l. Siberia, biologists have concluded that the we'll
a has penetrated frozen formation of the glacial
period which has never thawed out.